get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
v t 1 (code) to perform semantic preprocessing of the code, usually optimizing one or more qualities of the code, such as run-time speed of execution or run-time storage usage The minimum semantic requirements of compilation are that it must remove all macro calls and arrange for all load time values to be resolved prior to run time 2 (a function) to produce a new object of type compiled-function which represents the result of compiling the code represented by the function See the function compile 3 (a source file) to produce a compiled file from a source file See the function compile-file
To convert a high-level script into a low-level set of commands that can be executed or run Syntax errors are discovered when a script is being compiled
To process one or more program source files in order to produce an executable binary file (or an intermediate binary file referred to as an object file)
The translation of a high (human) level programming language program into a low (machine) level language program
-a process done by computers for computers to make a newly written computer program understandable to the actual machine electronic components so that it will run when you type in the program's name or click on an icon that stands for your program All programs in any programming language need to be compiled, but this is part of what programming software is written to do for the user or programmer Newer programming environments like MicroWorlds or Visual Basic are designed to make this step undetectable to the user/programmer (return to CONTENTS to find your way back to the link point in the section of text that brought you here)
use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
{f} collect, gather together in one place; compose (an essay, book, etc.) from many parts; (Computers) translate a program that is written in a high level programming language from a source code into object code (machine language)
The process of converting a source file written in a high-level language (BASIC, COBOL, RPGII, PL/I, etc ) to an object file (a set of machine language instructions)